Chantry Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Block of houses. 4 related planning applications.
Chantry Cottages
- WRENN ID
- broken-soffit-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Block of houses
- Address
- Chantry Cottages, 1, 3, 5 and 7, Stocks Road, Aldbury, HP23 5RT
- OS grid reference
- SP 964 124
- Coordinates
- 51.8028, -0.60315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chantry Cottages is a block of four houses built in the 18th century and renovated around 1856 by the Brownlow Estate, which extended the southern house (No. 1) to serve as a schoolmistress's house. The cottages are constructed of red brick with steep red tiled roofs that are half-hipped at the southern end. They are two stories tall with part attics and are set back from the road, facing east. The rear of the cottages features outshuts with catslide roofs.
No. 1 has an added rear parlour that includes a small canted bay window on the south side, with cast-iron lattice casements that match those of the southern end of the school. The block has two large square internal chimneys that serve all four houses. Each house features two first-floor windows and a larger ground floor window next to a gabled open porch that leads to a plank door. The windows are Yorkshire sliding casements with lattice leading, with two lights above and three lights below. There are also two small rear gabled dormers that provide light to the attics. Inside, the cottages have exposed chamfered tie-beams and stud partitions filled with brick. The cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Chantry Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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